Tanghi Argentini by Guy Thys Nominated for an Oscar for short films [media]
Has anyone seen this recent movie with tango as its central element? Below is a preview on YouTube and a review on the Hollywood Reporter....
Some tango dancers hate having their dance call a ballroom dance. It's easy to understand why. "Ballroom" dances have an elitist, upscale image....
Syllabuses have a bad name among many experienced social dancers. Most of them are prescriptive and restrictive. They specify THE Right Way to...
My lady and I watched Martin Scorsese's movie "Hugo" last night. Both Argentine tango dancers, we were delighted that it had both tango music and...
The phrase "line of dance" is Anglo ballroom vocabulary. In conventional Spanish it's "la pista de baile" or "la pista". Is there an Argentine...
If you walk south from the Spire, the 100-meter plus needle in the middle of wide very busy O’Connell Street in Dublin, you will come in two or three...
People are always assuming what women want. A frequent answer is "connection, emotion, none of that acrobatic stuff." The problem is this is just...
Oscar Casas on YouTube has a way of making hard subjects easier. After watching several of his videos I think I have learned a few of the "secrets"...
Recently I talked to a lady who just came back from a month in Buenos Aires. She went with a couple of friends, one of whom had been there before and...
Figures are a man's game. Women need adornos to add to the figures to express themselves, to become equal partners in the dance. What do you...
The posts by barre-fly about his daughter Melissa raises the question. How many Teens and college-age young dancers are there in your milongas? And...
It has become politically correct to say that show tango is not REAL tango. This would have surprised the first milongueros. They did informal...
This August from the 14 to the 31 the city of Buenos Aires puts on their 7th world tango festival. Starting on the 23 this includes two sets of...
I just finished watching a DVD of the Tango Buenos Aires 6th World Dance Competition. It shows 16 couples who were finalists in the Show Tango...
I sometimes see the word boleo misspelled as voleo. This is as bad a mistake as confusing to, too, and two. Boleo comes from the verb bolear,...
Looking back over the last couple dozen threads I see almost no mention of milongas. Do you do them? Any secrets of how to do them, and well, which...
If you want to increase the amount of tango dances and tango partners you have when you visit Buenos Aires, learn to dance swing and cumbia. Many...
Before I write further please let me know if I break the rules in any way, so I can avoid offending. When I signed on today I got a message...
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